Close to Home: Forms of Isolation in the Postcolonial Province
نام عام مواد
[Thesis]
نام ساير پديدآوران
;supervisor: Clark, Katerina; Neuman, Justin
وضعیت نشر و پخش و غیره
نام ناشر، پخش کننده و غيره
Yale University: United States -- Connecticut
تاریخ نشرو بخش و غیره
: 2012
مشخصات ظاهری
نام خاص و کميت اثر
253 Pages
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جزئيات پايان نامه و نوع درجه آن
Ph.D.
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متن يادداشت
How might we arrive at a comparative model for world fiction that attends to the formative stakes of local context? This dissertation charts the afterlives of nineteenth-century Russian literature in late- and post-apartheid South Africa to forge far-reaching connections that resist the denaturalizing logic of a global paradigm. It begins with South African writers' invocations of Russian realist prose and works toward deeper formal and epistemological affinities between archetypal moments in these traditions. The literary-historical intensity of Russia's "Golden Age" in the nineteenth century stems from the convergence of narrative innovation and philosophical speculation--roughly, form and content--amidst an unusual degree of social unrest. This yields a productive tension between historical contingency and "timeless" expression that, when transposed to the "timely" South African context, is manifest as a retreat to the realm of immediate encounter. By reading South African texts with the canonical Russian works whose universalism they strive toward, this dissertation posits a disjuncture between meaning's generation through confinement and its globalization. Ultimately, it gets beyond the local as a place on a map to see it as a property of narrativity.
موضوع (اسم عام یاعبارت اسمی عام)
موضوع مستند نشده
Comparative literature
موضوع مستند نشده
Slavic literature
موضوع مستند نشده
African literature
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اصطلاح موضوعی
Language
اصطلاح موضوعی
literature and linguistics
اصطلاح موضوعی
Postcolonial
اصطلاح موضوعی
Isolation
اصطلاح موضوعی
Russia
اصطلاح موضوعی
South Africa
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